William Faulkner (ebook)

Argumento de William Faulkner (ebook)

Winner of the 2007 Book Prize, British Association for American Studies

"William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words is an important contribution to Faulkner studies."--Barbara Ladd, Studies in American Fiction

"For readers who enjoyed and admired the first volume, this one offers vintage Godden and potentially paradigm-shifting criticism. . . . It is in the close readings that the energies of this book lie and where the reader will find the most satisfaction and the furtherance of Faulkner scholarship."--Taylor Hagood, Journal of American Studies

"Richard Godden's William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words is a stunning account of Faulkner's late fiction that combines intense close reading and attention to the history of mid-twentieth-century modernization to reaffirm Faulkner's centrality, not just to Southern literature or to modernist aesthetics, but to the mainstream of American history and culture."--Andrew Hoberek, University of Missouri, Columbia

"This book asks us to think again about Faulkner and the relation of language to history. It is provocative but patiently argued, theoretically sophisticated yet marvelously fluent, challenging as well as convincing. It swims against much of the current critical tide but it gets much further into new territory on Faulkner and narrative."--Richard Gray, author of The Life of William Faulkner0Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
CHAPTER ONE: Earthing The Hamlet 11
CHAPTER TWO: Comparative Cows: Reading The Hamlet for Its Residues 42
CHAPTER THREE: Revenants, Remnants, and Counterrevolution in "The Fire and the Hearth" 60
CHAPTER FOUR: "Pantaloon in Black" and "The Old People": Migration, Mourning, and the Exquisite Corpse of African American Labor 87
CHAPTER FIVE: Reading the Ledgers: Textual Variants and Labor Variables (with Noel Polk) 119
CHAPTER SIX: Find the Jew: Modernity, Seriality, and Armaments in A Fable 156
CHAPTER SEVEN: "The Bugger's a Jew": A Fable as Melancholic Allegory 179
Notes 203
Index 235